If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to
For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Ca
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case mor
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the n
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.